Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-12-28
Hospital Economy.

whether 10 De moEe worried about the
Hospital contract, or the intimation
given last week, in the BULLETIN, that
some County officers engaged in a
newspaper enterprise and made des.
perate but unsuccessful effort to make
1t profitable by means of the County
patronage. She says, referring to a
quotation from this paper:
This is the most palpable contortion of
facts that has been or lot to see in print DR.
Reed never figured in the controversy: the
| question was all the time: Did the Commits.
sioners do right in letting the contract to the
! highest bidders We held that they did not !;
Tor our opinion thus expressed. we are called
everything that is vile, arraigned for abusing
Hogan and Sewett and are charged with hav-
ing started this paper to absorb the County
funds through the assistance of Comfy Of
ncials all OF which are lies, baaefaced, and
well known to he so by the writer when they
were put on paper for publication
Mrs. Darlington should have said
distortion but such errors are to be
attributed to ignorance not design and
thev serve to amuse the people. How.
ever, the foregoing clipping is most
remarkable "contortion" of facts. Doc.
tor Reed did figure in the controversy.
Nearly everybody in Hawthorne
knows that one of the dearest wishes
OF Mrs P. was to get him away from
this county. This will be easily under.
stood by any one who will read the
back numbers of the paper, in which,
whenever opportunity offered some
thing was said which would have
tendency to injure him.
Did the Commissioners do right in letting
the contract to the highest biddery We held
that they did not.
In the first complaint about the Hos.
pital the ratjewspaper concluded by
saying;
1t is not the parpose of this article to find
fault, but as a matter ofnews, we feel bound
to call the attention of the taxpayers to the
liberality u opr Dads with other peoples
money.
II appears now that she did intend
to find fault, but forgot that she said
she did not. However, the question is
easily answered. The County Com
missioners did do right in this instance
in letting the contract to the highest
bidder. They did right as officers and
men. They did not endanger the
County patients by saving fifteen dol
lars month in the expenses of the
Hospital. 1t is the duty of the Com.
missi0ners to act as fair-minded and
humane business men, AMI they pro-
tected the patients against the strong
temptation to economize at their ex-
pense, which would be felt by a Doc
tor who would leave practice in Vir-
ginia city to get contract in this
County at $145 month, knowing as
they do that the actual present cost of
maintaining the patients is $115
month and that it has averaged more
than Si0O-leaving for professional
service at best, forty-five month.
Rich and poor, regardless of personal
likes and dislikes for either the mem
bers of the board or for the County
Physician, uphold the action of the
Board. They do not want the hospital
service to be pinched in the name of
public economy when the final suf.
ferers will be the patients.
Poor Mrs. p is unfortunate in her
statements. She has frequently decried
the use of personalities, but losing her
temper over disappointments and lack
ing ideas she drops into personalities
as readily as she contradicts herself
and alters her opinions. Even when
grammatical, generally vague in her
remarks, leaving them, if possible, so
that they can be "contorted" to mean
something else, she in her last issue
plainly calls the editor of this paper
the most INSCRIPTIONS newspaper man
in Nevada. From many people that
would be offensive, but coming from a
paper that does not put the names of
its owners ut IFS bend and which is con
Quoted 10y those whose actions indicate
that they believe that to be unscrupu
lous is the only way to succeed, it may
he regarded as another of Mrs. P's
compliments
For our opuon thus expressed we are call.
ed everything that is vil,. arragned for abus.
ing Hogan and Jewett and are charged with
having started this paper to absorb the
county. funds through the assistance OF
county officials, all Of which are lios, bare.
faced and we'll known to be SO by the writer
when they were pu, on Paper for publication. !
Now Mrs. p that is where you IRE
wrong. In the first place the Bull.
LETIN has not called you everything
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